Man's best friend just became even better, with tests showing that dogs can sniff out the early stages of bowel cancer.A labrador retriever detected traces of cancer with more than 90 per cent accuracy from samples provided by volunteers.

This heart-tugging video captured the extraordinary reunion of two old friends: a man and the gorilla he raised from infancy.
It had been five years since British naturalist Damian Aspinall had seen Kwibi, a lowland gorilla who was born at Howletts

The killing of a man by an elephant at Byculla zoo last Sunday draws attention to the unbearable stress felt by large animals kept in close confinement. It also begs the question what influence it has on children when they see animals kept in cruel

An upstate New York man is accused of animal cruelty for walking two pit bull puppies with 10-pound chains used for towing trucks around their necks. Kenneth Merritt was arrested on two counts of overdriving, torturing or injuring animals while walking

Sam Glaser has always had a special bond with his family's two-year-old border collie, Lily. But during their daily walk last week, the pair was attacked by two neighborhood dogs that had apparently slipped under a back fence and gotten loose.

Late in the afternoon of Sunday, June 10, 1985, Cole McFarland Jr. went walking. He took with him two dogs -- Noble, his 3-year-old golden retriever, and Starbell, Noble's "girlfriend." The path they chose borders the train tracks in Carlsbad, a coastal

Development in India is hurting the Indian tiger. The systematic degradation of forest land and exponential growth of humans has resulted in a 26% loss of forest habitation available to tigers in the past 80-150 years.

A New York man is accused of going fishing in a pet store aquarium where he caught a $350 shark and smuggled it out of the shop under his jacket.
Police say the Freeport man released the contraband shark into his home aquarium, where they say he also k